Liverpool’s pre-season victory against Sunderland was overshadowed by an injury to Joe Gomez.<\/p>\n
Goals from Kieran Morrison, Dominik Szoboszlai, Federico Chiesa and Lewis Koumas gave Liverpool a 4-2 win in the Nashville opener of their United States tour, with Timur Tutierov and Enzo le Fee replying for the Black Cats.<\/p>\n
Gomez started the game as centre-back and captain, but his departure in the eighth minute added to Liverpool\u2019s defensive issues with new signing Jeremy Jacquet rested after injury and Giovanni Leoni recovering following a long-term absence.<\/p>\n
“Probably the worst news has been straight away the injury of Joe,” Reds head coach Andoni Iraola was quoted as saying on liverpoolfc.com.<\/p>\n
“We were happy because we were kind of going through all the training without losing any player. Unluckily for us, straight away we\u2019ve lost Joe.<\/p>\n
“With Jeremy, we decided to take it easy with him. He has been a lot of months without playing with a shoulder injury.<\/p>\n
“So, I think we are going to take it easy with him. He will play probably the last game of this US tour and he will have time to have minutes.”<\/p>\n
Iraola felt the performance gives Liverpool a platform from which to build on ahead of meeting Wrexham in New York and Leeds in Chicago.<\/p>\n
He said: “A lot of things to correct, obviously, it\u2019s the first day. You could feel the heavy legs, the players have been training.<\/p>\n
“So, we lacked some freshness. But it will give us a good starting point to improve things.”<\/p>\n
Iraola confirmed that Alexander Isak, Florian Wirtz and Ryan Gravenberch are in Chicago following their post-World Cup breaks and will soon rejoin the squad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool’s pre-season victory against Sunderland was overshadowed by an injury to Joe Gomez. Goals from Kieran Morrison, Dominik…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":568906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-568905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}